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Thelonious Monk Septet “Monk’s Music” Riverside/Analogue Productions LP

Andrew Hill “Passing Ships” Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP 700×700 61 KB

So glad you have power back! I know what that was like--a few winters ago lost power for 5 days. . . and then a month later for 7 days. . . no heat, no water. . . a bad time.

Pianist-vocalist HAZEL SCOTT at Bop City, New York City, April 1949.

Jerry Vivino “Walkin’ With The Wazmo” Zoho cd

Gregory Groover Jr. "Negro Spiritual Songbook Vol. 2--The Message"

The artist/composer that I am closest to has told me he deliberately does not listen to certain work and persons because he feels his admiration and wonder for them would unduly influence his own work--and at this time he does not wish to be influenced as he had been in the past but to find his own music on his own.

These cds have sold.

Gregory Groover, Jr. “Lovabye”

Rudy Van Gelder Remasters cd

Village Vanguard Live Sessions, Vol. 1 When you don’t listen to Dizzy for a while he can floor you with how great he is. Also. . . Ray Nance and Pepper Adams! Great session.

An excellent release. Mark Masters Ensemble “Wish Me Well–Reflections on The Music of Gary McFarland” SACD

Maria Schneider and the SWR Big Band “Jazz Works and Arrangements” disc 2 Setting the right mood for this dark, warm morning.

Vinicius Cantuária “Cymbals” 600×600 84.6 KB

Tom Harrell “Stories” Contemporary OJC cd

Thanks for sharing that Kevin.

Grateful Dead “30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965–1995” disc 4

Oh my. Verve released this excellent Armstrong cd yesterday and it is a wonderful sounding All Stars live date. Whenever I hear Louis sing “Dear Old Southland” with such tender and smooth delivery . . . (ironic as that song is) I feel better. And then “Kiss to Build a Dream On” . . . always sealing the deal. This one was worth the wait. Louis Armstrong and the All Stars “Louis in London” Verve cd “THE GREAT LOUIS ARMSTRONG” indeed.

Dave McMurray “Grateful Deadication” Blue Note cd

Another Blue Note “LTE” release. Donald Byrd “Chant” Blue Note Japan TOCJ-50275 cd. I’ve long admired the mastering in this series from Japan. Great lineup for this disc!

Donald Byrd “The Creeper” Blue Note Japan TOCJ-50303

Keith Jarrett, “Sun Bear Concerts,” disc 5, Sapporo

“The Bobby Gordon Sextet” Jazzology cd Mr. Gordon knows how to capture the spirit of my favorite clarinetist, Charles Ellsworth Russell.

Les Plus Belles Chansons de Antonio Carlos Jobim & Vinicius De Moraes A compilation of others doing mostly songs by Tom and Vinicius.